If the United States decided to release pictures of Osama bin Laden, would it violate international law?
It's a tough question the United States has faced before. Back in 2003, the Pentagon decided to release photographs of the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's two sons who were killed in a shootout in Iraq. The pictures were bloody, showing the brothers with significant wounds on their faces.
At the time, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the decision, saying it was in line with the Geneva Convention.